USD 493 Clerk Susan Wells finished her final board meeting Monday night before retirement. Wells began her career her senior year of high school when she worked as a student clerk. She has been an employee for 41 years. The board presented her with commemorative shirt and had a retirement cake following the meeting.
After an investigation, a Joplin, Mo., man was taken into custody by Cherokee County Sheriff’s Investigators on Wednesday afternoon.
John Matthew Chew, 37, is being held in the Cherokee County Jail as the result of investigations into a September 2022 burglary of a building in Weir, where a welder was stolen and a December 2022 burglary of another building in Weir, where multiple tools were stolen.
